Professor

218 Johnston
513-727-3280
cotugnm@MiamiOH.edu

Education

• Ph.D. in English Literature, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
• M.A. in English Literature, The Pennsylvania State University
• B.A. in English Literature, Rutgers University, Douglass College, New Brunswick, NJ

Teaching Interests

• Twentieth century American literature
• Technical communication
• Composition
• The Book as Object

Research Interests

• Twentieth century American literature (Conrad Richter, Vladimir Nabokov)
• Technical communication (police report writing)

Selected Publications

• “Seeking a Direct Pipeline to Practice: Four Guidelines for Researchers and Practitioners.” Journal of Business and Technical Communication 25 (January, 2011): 95-105.
• “Encouraging Students Write Now!: The Studio as Bridge,” Adult and Basic Education and Literacy Journal, 3: 3 (Fall 2009): 171-174.
• “A Benevolent Conspiracy: Conrad Richter, Alfred Knopf, and Reynolds,” Journal of Scholarly Publishing, Spring 2009: 263-286.
• “The Poetry of Wyndham Lewis,” Facts on file companion to British Poetry, 1900 to the present. Eds. James Persoon and Robert R. Watson, New York: Facts on File, 2009.
• “Creating a Community of Learners Through a Class Archive,” Teaching English in the Two Year College. September 2008: 50-56.
• “Teaching Lolita at a Religious College,” Approaches to Teaching Lolita, Modern Language Association, edited by Zoran Kuzmanovich and Galya Diment, 2008: 147-151.
• Interview with Robin Becker, The Writer’s Chronicle, 40: 5 (April 2008).
• “The Monkey Ship at Mesker Zoo,” The Nabokovian, 59: 1 (Fall 2007): 33-36.
• Review of Domain of Perfect Affection (Robin Becker, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006). Prairie Schooner. www.smartishpace.com Fall 2007.
• “Conrad Richter and Karl Goedecke in the Archives: The Story of an Author and a Bookseller,” The Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America. 100: 1 (March 2006): 105-117.
• “Elizabeth Bishop’s Lieux de Memoire.” Q/W/E/R/T/Y 12 (October 2002): 101-109.

Web Publications

• "Conrad Richter as Author"
• “John Updike’s Buchanan Dying Web Project”
• “English Emblem Book Project”
• “Iconologia; Or, Moral Emblems, by Cesar Ripa”

Grants and Awards

• Grants for Write Now!, Middletown Rotary and Rotary International, Middletown Community Foundation

Work in Progress

Dr. Cotugno is currently working on a series of publications and conference presentations addressing police report writing, including an article “Discursive Performances: The Gates Arrest and the Crowley Report.”